Association Between Region of Birth and Advance Care Planning Documentation Among Older Australian Migrant Communities: A Multicenter Audit Study.

Those with poorer functional status and those receiving palliative care were more likely to have “health professional or someone else ACP.” While palliative care status showed a trend toward an increased likelihood of “person completed ACD,” it appears that clinical variables were more influential on the processes of ACP or clinical decision making that occurred without the involvement of the person themselves, perhaps in response to acute clinical deterioration, judgments of “clinical futility,” or planning in the context of a person with already impaired decision-making capacity.

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